TL;DR: Save 33% on Minecraft's Java and Bedrock worlds, now only $19.97 (reg. $29) through November 17.

What's the world's best sandbox and world-building game? Minecraft! You probably played it as a kid or teenager, but the old saying does apply here: it's an oldie, but a goodie. — Read the rest

With any luck, the ouroboros of plagiarism that is Generative AI will eat itself in the next few years – but until then, we're going to have to deal with uncanny six-fingered art and hours of YouTube slop. The next step in the Elon Musk cult's attempt to speedrun the death of art has come in the form of Oasis, a Minecraft clone being touted as the first AI-generated video game. — Read the rest

In his 1971 novel The Futurological Congress, Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem envisioned a future where reality could be altered through fine-tuned psychedelics, creating vivid hallucinations that transformed the world around the user. Dilapidated interiors appeared as luxurious structures. — Read the rest

Few games since Minecraft quite tickle the same sandbox neurons Minecraft so thoroughly tickles: that feeling of having landed in an arcadian yet dangerous new world to be explored and lived in but which is also a completely manipulable 3D mass of digital Lego bricks. — Read the rest

Yesterday, the Minecraft movie trailer emerged to howls of complaint from… adults. People like me:

It's going to be a "real people transported to the Game World" dealie and looks like one of those fancy shader packs that lipsticks the aesthetic so your video card has something to do.

The first teaser trailer for the Minecraft movie, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, just dropped. It's going to be a "real people transported to the Game World" dealie and looks like one of those fancy shader packs that lipsticks the aesthetic so your video card has something to do. — Read the rest

TL;DR: Get both Minecraft Java & Bedrock Editions in one digital download for just $24.99 (reg. $39).

Calling all Minecraft fans! Whether you're a seasoned block breaker or just getting ready to punch your first tree, this deal's about to blow your Creeper socks off. — Read the rest

AtmosphericBeats makes real-world Minecraft maps based on geographical data and their latest creation is a 1:20 scale map of Mississippi.

This work is a representation of the State of Mississippi, USA, on a 1:20 scale with biomes, vegetation and other natural features derived from OpenStreetMap and high resolution land cover datasets

These are much better than the simple heightmap-conversion types of "real world" Minecraft map that were always a thing. — Read the rest

Minecraft Story Mode was one of the first narrative spinoffs of the game, but one that died with developer Telltale Games and fell into intellectual property hell as a result. Microsoft and Mojang have moved on, but the kids still like it and it's not clear how to to find it in complete playable form. — Read the rest

Minecraft, the voxelated open-world everything game, is 15 years old.

Aren't birthdays just great? I still remember crying hysterically after my cousin blew out all the candles on my cake. Needless to say, my 30th birthday party ended on a somber note.

I don't know anything about Minecraft, but I was delighted to learn of this complete, detailed Minecraft Disneyland. "Mouskegamer" started the project five years ago with two friends, but others have taken up the mantle since 2023.

Here is a video walkthrough of Minecraft Disneyland. — Read the rest

What's the one thing Minecraft is missing? If you said "a movie adaptation starring Jack Black", you'd be correct, but the second thing is a proper physics engine. If you've ever been frustrated that your blocks don't act like they would in the real world, look no further than Minecraft modder and redstone engineer SethBling, who has created a functioning Minecraft physics engine. — Read the rest

Monocraft is the pixel font from Minecraft, reset by Idrees Hassan to be monospace "for developers who like Minecraft a bit too much." Miracode is a vectorized version of it—all but unrecognizable, I think, but good for people who "want to be able to read what they type!" — Read the rest

Jack Black, fresh off success in The Super Mario Bros Movie, is to star in the forthcoming Minecraft one, purportedly as default player character Steve.

"Napoleon Dynamite" filmmaker Jared Hess, who previously worked with Black on the 2006 comedy "Nacho Libre," is directing the project.

Minecraft is the most successful game of all time, and it's "not even close," reports Zack Zweiden. The blocky build-n-survive masterpiece recently sold its 300,000,000th copy.

To put that massive number into perspective, Grand Theft Auto V has only sold 185 million units since its release in 2012.

Minecraft's previously-nameless 1.20 update has been teased for a while now, with features such as a cherry blossom biome and a lore-heavy archeology system having been previously mentioned. Now, however, there's a name to go with the number: Trials and Tales. — Read the rest

This is what deepfakes were made for: Obama and Biden giving shit to Trump for having too many stacks of diamonds on a brand-new Minecraft server.

Obama
Donald, I found your secret chest How did you get 12 stacks of diamonds?

Minecraft is one of the pillars of gaming, and for good reason. It's hard to beat the elevator pitch of a world where you can go anywhere and build anything, with your imagination being the only limit. Despite Minecraft's popularity, however, it's also famous for the slow pace of its updates. — Read the rest

Got some old Sim City 2000 cities lying around? Import them to Minecraft with Mine City 2000, an astonishingly precise converter made by jgosar. [via Hacker News]

In this footage, you'll see a simplified but fully functional 3D version of Minecraft running on a 1MHz CPU running inside Minecraft, complete with a monochrome display. The output is running much faster than real-time—the machine running on a standard Minecraft server would get about 1 frame a week—but this is nonetheless the moon landing of virtualized insanity. — Read the rest